An industrial gear is a round mechanical component that has a "teethed" circumference and is used to transfer torque between itself and other equipment. Its teeth connect with other complementary teethed gear wheels or parts; these parts can transfer torque to or from other gears depending on their order in a gear system.
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Omni Gear & Machine CorporationJoliet, IL 800-876-7216 At Omni G & M Corporation, experienced and dedicated engineers specialize in precision machined custom industrial gears in addition to many more similar products in a variety of sizes and types for use in any type of application. Omni stocks a large selection of materials including bronze, synthetic, fibre and alloys up to 12 inches in diameter. No job is too large or too small for Omni.
Commercial Gear & Sprocket Company, Inc.East Walpole, MA 800-491-1073 CGS has the machining experience you need. This 3rd generation family owned company has been producing quality industrial gears & other power transmission products at competitive prices since 1946. With a customer list that represents many industries, CGS supplies products to such businesses as tool builders, construction equipment suppliers & medical equipment providers.
Sherbrooke Gear Works, Inc.Sherbrooke, QC 819-566-1040 By providing many innovative products and services, Sherbrooke largely surpasses other companies that offer more limited manufacturing. Not only does Sherbrooke design, create and produce industrial gears, Sherbrooke also offers a large variety of personalized fabrication and outsourcing services to satisfy all your engineering needs. Call today or visit Sherbrooke's website for more information!
Supreme Gear Co.Fraser, MI 586-775-6325 Founded over 60 years ago, Supreme Gear Company is a privately owned Hispanic Minority Company. We are both AS9100:2004 and ISO 9100-2008 certified. We provide quality industrial gears for many aircraft companies including Boeing. We are committed to achieving complete customer satisfaction and strive to continuously improve our efficiency and effectiveness.
G & K Machine Co.Commerce City, CO 800-455-0603 Geared to serve you since 1961, G & K Machine Company specializes in the machining and repair requirements of the underground mining industry. Industrial gear manufacturing was an outgrowth of these needs and has become the backbone of this company. Adding computer controlled equipment in the 1980s, G & K developed into a full service job shop capable of meeting the needs of most industries.
Reliance Gear CorporationAddison, IL 630-543-6640 As a precision manufacturer of quality industrial gears and more for the past forty years, Reliance has been serving many reputable firms in a wide variety of industries such as defense, construction & agricultural equipment, graphic web presses and well drilling machinery. Breakdown situations, prototype machinery and obsolete parts present special challenges that Reliance welcomes.
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Industrial Gears
Industrial gears can simply be used to transfer rotational motion, or the interlocking of gears with unequal diameters can produce a change in rotational speed and rotational force (torque). Gears are used extensively throughout industry, and they are essential to the functioning of many kinds of industrial equipment and products. Many manufacturing equipment varieties depend on gears as their source of movement. Bevel gears, spur gears and other gear varieties are necessary in all vehicles for the transmission of rotational motion between an engine and a vehicle's moving parts. Materials handling, food processing, textile manufacturing, clock making, heavy industrial mining equipment and oil rigging equipment depend on gears for the transmission of motion as well. Compared to gears applied in commercial and consumer products contexts, industrial gears are usually characterized by heavy duty construction and durable metal composition.
Spur gears are the simplest and among the most common industrial gear varieties. They are also known as "straight-cut gears" and feature straight teeth radiating in alignment with their axes. Spur gears are often used as sprockets, which are thin gears with teeth that lock easily into roller chains. Sprockets act as a non-slip pulley for power transmission applications; they can be used in combination with bicycle chains, tank treads and other similar chain or tread based movement apparatus. Cylinders or rods with straight teeth are splines, which are used to transmit motion laterally. Planetary gears are among the more complicated gear systems. They contain one central spur gear, or "sun gear," surrounded by three or more "planet gears;" the exterior gears interlock with the inward-facing teeth of a larger internal gear, increasing the output speed of the large outer gear through rotational torque applied to the internal sun gear. Planetary gears and other gear configurations like helical gears and differential gears are by nature much more complicated than spur gears. Spur gears can be used in simple and complex applications, but planetary gears are used in drivetrains and other applications where complex gear ratios are required for the smooth transmission of torque. Because the range of contexts in which gears are applied is so wide, consultation with gear manufacturers in advance of purchase of a gear system is advisable. |
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